How is Your Property Valued

Why are valuations important?

It provides a new market value for your property – these property valuations are now far more relevant and useful as they more closely reflect current market values. There are new market relativities – this is important because market changes help determine individual property rates and charges.

Valuation process

The Valuer-General Victoria introduced standard property data requirements for councils, under the initiative known as Valuation Best Practice.

Only qualified valuers – professionals holding recognised tertiary qualifications and with the required practical experience – can perform municipal valuations. They are required to operate under the highest standards of professionalism and ethics – for example, all valuers must declare impartiality before undertaking valuations and undertake to perform all valuations to the best of their ability and judgement.

Valuing a property

Data obtained for each property is determined under Valuation Best Practice guidelines and includes things such as:

Land area

Building size

Building condition

Construction material

Age

Available services

Topography

Land classification (usage) and zoning etc.

Data is compiled on each property over time, through
inspection, building and planning permits and other public sources.

The valuer builds a profile of value levels for each
different area/property type by analysis of recent sales and leasing. This
information is then applied to individual properties, taking into account the
different characteristics of each property.

Supplementary Valuations

In certain circumstances, valuations must be performed
between general valuations. These are known as supplementary valuations. They
are required when properties are: